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Boxing Day football gets a boost with Overground service
Football fans across London look set to benefit from a Christmas bonus of sorts, at least if they want to get to their club’s Boxing Day fixture, as the Mayor of London has announced that this year, for the first … Continue reading
Posted in Norwood Junction, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged London Overground, TfL, Transport for London
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Carnival of Cultures, London Road, West Croydon, Jul 28
Posted in Activities, Thornton Heath, West Croydon
Tagged Thornton Heath, West Croydon
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Lime bikes are falling over themselves to be taken for a ride
This is the scene outside West Croydon railway station yesterday afternoon. The dockless Lime e-bike trial in Croydon is less than one week in, and already one of the more obvious, predictable, shortcomings with a dockless bike hire scheme was … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling, Lime bicycles, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Lime e-bikes, West Croydon
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Dockless scheme launched as Croydon stays in bike slow lane
Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, finds the council adding a dash of Lime to its otherwise questionable green credentials Just as the rest of the country appears to be abandoning dockless bicycle hire schemes, Croydon Council has belatedly jumped aboard … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Bikes, Business, Community associations, Commuting, Croydon Cycling Campaign, Cycling, East Croydon, Lime bicycles, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Boris Bikes, Croydon Cycling Campaign, East Croydon station, Lime e-bikes, TfL, Transport for London, West Croydon station
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Mayor finds £5m to save West Croydon and 50 ticket offices
In a rare instance where a public authority has conducted a consultation and actually listened to the responses, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has junked plans to close ticket offices 51 London Overground stations, after protests from passengers and lobbying … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged City Hall, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport for London, West Croydon
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West Croydon crash causes chaos, a sign of things to come
Photostory by SARAH BOWELL Croydon town centre came to a standstill yesterday afternoon after a car crashed in to a shop front at the junction of Tamworth Road and London Road, opposite West Croydon railway station. According to the emergency … Continue reading
Posted in TfL, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Sadiq Khan, Sarah Bowell, TfL, Transport for London, West Croydon
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Trams union warns of ‘summer of strikes’ over pensions
JEREMY CLACKSON, our transport correspondent, on the increasingly bitter dispute between staff and management over pensions for tram drivers The trades union representing Croydon’s tram drivers has handed the network’s management notice of three days of strikes next month: Wednesday … Continue reading
Pidgeon critical of TfL plan to shorten 11 Croydon bus routes
A London Assembly Member has joined local community passenger groups in accusing Transport for London of having already accepted tenders for some of the 11 routes through central Croydon which are set to be curtailed and shortened. TfL’s consultation on … Continue reading
Posted in Caroline Pidgeon, Commuting, East Croydon, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Liberal Democrats, London, London Assembly, London Buses, Mayor, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport for London, West Croydon Bus Station, Whitgift Centre
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TfL has agreed tenders to shorten 11 town centre bus routes
Croydon and Sutton’s largest public transport passenger group has issued a withering demolition of TfL’s proposals to shorten bus routes through Croydon town centre, as JEREMY CLACKSON reports Transport for London’s plan to shorten 11 bus routes through Croydon town … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Commuting, East Croydon, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Tramlink, East Croydon station, Hammersfield, Hammerson, London, London Assembly, London Buses, Mayor, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport for London, West Croydon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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All change, as TfL consults on two bus routes for Cane Hill
Hold very tight please… our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, has news of more changes to local bus services Transport for London public consultations are a bit like their buses… you wait for ages for one, and then two come along … Continue reading
Posted in Cane Hill, Commuting, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Town, East Croydon, Old Coulsdon, Purley, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Cane Hill, Coulsdon, East Croydon, Old Coulsdon, Purley, TfL, Transport for London, West Croydon, Woodcote
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#RailRevolution: activists join forces to protest 3% fare rise
Sick of rising rail fares and chaotic commuting? Tired of the endless tinkering with our broken privatised railway system? On Wednesday, just as rail fares across the country go up by an inflation-busting 3.1 per cent – following 12 months … Continue reading
Croydon Mencap Carol Service, St Michael’s, Dec 13
Posted in Charity, Church and religions, West Croydon
Tagged Croydon Mencap, St Michael and All Angels, West Croydon
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TfL’s proposals will be unwelcome changes for bus passengers
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Local bus expert TOM BOWELL, right, casts his eye over Transport for London’s proposals, announced this week, to curtail 11 bus routes through the town centre Inside Croydon reported this week on the latest consultation by Transport for … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Hammersfield, Hammerson, London, London Buses, Mayor, TfL, Tom Bowell, Transport for London, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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TfL wants to reduce service on 11 bus routes in town centre
Transport for London yesterday launched a consultation on buses in Croydon town centre which proposes seriously curtailing 11 routes. One senior Town Hall figure has criticised the TfL consultation, saying that it is an effort to “hoodwink” the public, and … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, TfL, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Assembly, London Buses, Mayor, TfL, Transport for London, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Christmas services at St Michael’s, West Croydon, Dec 2-25
Posted in Church and religions, West Croydon
Tagged St Michael and All Angels, West Croydon
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London Overground looks to axe ticket offices at 51 stations
Anerley and Penge West stations’ ticket offices are among 51 across the capital which have been earmarked for cost-cutting closure. Croydon’s London Overground stations, West Croydon and Norwood Junction, are not on the list of those about to lose their … Continue reading
Posted in TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Anerley, London Overground, Penge West, TfL, Transport for London
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All change on the buses, as now 412 suffers a service cut
Transport for London has just announced another reduction in service to a busy bus route in Croydon. The 412, which runs between West Croydon and Purley, is to be reduced from four buses an hour to three, the change to … Continue reading
Posted in Purley, TfL, Transport, Waddon, West Croydon
Tagged Purley, Sadiq Khan, Transport for London, West Croydon
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Network Rail looking for signs of new times at your local station
Live near Norwood Junction? How about Coulsdon Town or Thornton Heath? Network Rail is offering neighbours of their south London stations the opportunity to spruce up nearby railway arches with the work of a world-renowned mural painter. Lionel Stanhope is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Selhurst, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Network Rail, Selhurst
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TfL’s budget problems lead to bus cuts for 410 and 433
When Jeremy Corbyn used up all his questions to Theresa May at Prime Minister’s Questions earlier this month to highlight the damaging effects on the quality of life of the poor and working class which had suffered swingeing cuts to … Continue reading
Posted in Addington, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, East Croydon, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, New Addington South, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, East Croydon station, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport for London
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All change at West Croydon as TfL makes a platform switch
Train travellers at West Croydon Station have also been having to deal with an imposed service change today, and one which disability groups say was not adequately consulted and which puts their members at a considerable inconvenience if they need … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Adrian Dennis, TfL, Transport for London, West Croydon station
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It’s Meltdown Monday as Southern’s new train timetable bites
Entirely predictably, Govia Thameslink, the operators in charge of Southern train services, have caused complete chaos with their new timetable, as our transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON reports No one needed to study the works of Nostradamus to predict the train … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged East Croydon, East Croydon station, Govia Thameslink, Southern Railway, Thameslink
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£2,000 per year season ticket and Purley service to get worse
Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on the discovery of our loyal reader that finds some serious flaws in the new rail timetable to be implemented in a fortnight’s time The devil, as the over-used saying goes, is always in the … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Purley, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Croydon South, East Croydon station, Govia Thameslink, GTR, Purley, Southern Railway
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Charity Commission launches financial probe into Tabernacle
An evangelical church based in West Croydon has been placed under investigation by the Charity Commission and had its bank accounts frozen. The Croydon Tabernacle is the second evangelical church based in Croydon to be placed under formal investigation by … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Church and religions, West Croydon
Tagged Charity Commission, Croydon Tabernacle, West Croydon
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Tram network in 10-day shutdown for rail works over Easter
Tram passengers are to encounter considerable disruption to their journeys for 10 days, beginning with Easter weekend, as Transport for London undertakes track replacement works. The tracks are to be replaced between George Street and Church Street from Good Friday, … Continue reading
Posted in East Croydon, TfL, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged East Croydon station, TfL, Transport for London
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May Day! #SouthernFail get in their excuses for new timetable
Promising the biggest overhaul of commuter network timetables for decades, Southern and Thameslink’s boss does not sound too confident, reports transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON Could the end of Croydon rail passengers’ misery be within sight? Passengers on new Thameslink trains … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged East Croydon station, Govia Thameslink, Nick Brown, Southern Railway, Thameslink
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